Author Lewis Carroll asks illustrator Sir John Tenniel (the principal political cartoonist for England's Punch magazine) to illustrate his story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book will be first published in November 1865.

1905:

Author Margery Sharp is born in Wiltshire, England. She will write 26 novels for adults, 14

stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and numerous short stories. Sharp's most famous work The

Rescuers (a series about a mouse) will be adapted into 2 Disney animated films - The Rescuers and The

Rescuers Down Under.

1931:

Actor Dean Jones, best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977, is born in Morgan City, Alabama. It was his role in the 1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree that brought Jones to the attention of Disney. He shared hosting duties in 1967 for Disneyland's Candlelight Ceremony. In 1975 and 1987 he narrated the Christmas Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.

1961:

Disney's 17th animated feature film 101 Dalmatians, featuring the

voice of Rod Taylor, premieres. When a litter of dalmatian puppies are

abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses

them for a diabolical fashion statement. It is the first Disney feature to solely use the

Xerox process for transferring the animators' drawings to cels. Prior to this, each one of

the animators' drawings had to be hand-traced in ink onto a cel. The new process has

sped up production greatly and given 101 Dalmatians a different look than Disney's

previous animated features. It is directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton

Luske, and Clyde Geronimi. (The film will be generally released thefollowing

month.)

1985:

Composer Paul J. Smith passes away in Glendale, California. He wrote background music for

nearly every Disney True-Life Adventure film and received an Oscar (along with Leigh Harline and Ned

Washington) for the music in Pinocchio. Smith also received Academy Awards nominations for Perri, Cinderella,

Song of the South, The Three Caballeros, Victory Through Air Power, and Saludos Amigos. He even appeared in

Fantasia ... as a member of the orchestra. In 1994, he will be posthumously awarded as a Disney Legend.

1987:

Super Bowl XXI is played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The halftime show is a Disney production called "Salute to Hollywood's 100th Anniversary," featuring Southern California-area High School drill teams and dancers. The New York Giants win over the Denver Broncos, 39-20.

1993:

Toontown continues its official grand opening festivities at Disneyland. On hand to

take part in a parade and special events are Michael Eisner and such celebrities as Robin Williams, Sally Fields,

Dan Ackroyd, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, and Tom Selleck. (Toontown will be dedicated the following day.)

1999:

McDonald's opens a themed restaurant in the Disney Village area at Disneyland Paris.

2002:

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Disney World plans to demolish about one-fourth

of its troubled Disney Institute and build 192 new time-share units there.

Touchstone Pictures & Spyglass Entertainment release the adventure drama The Count of Monte Cristo. An adaptation of the classic 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas,

the film follows the general plot of the story - a young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge. Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, The Count of Monte Cristo stars

Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris.

2004:

The historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood screens Disney's Sleeping Beauty in its

original 70MM format.

Disney's Dreams on Parade begins running at Tokyo Disneyland as part of the park's

20th anniversary celebration.

At the Golden Globe Awards, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -

Musical or Comedy goes to Bill Murray for his performance in Lost in Translation,

beatiing out Johnny Depp for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the

Black Pearl.

2007:

Jim and Lisa Fouch and their children, Brad and Hannah from Michigan make history as the first Walt Disney World guests to win a night's stay inside Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom Park.

Disney Channel premieres the original film Minutemen, about three "uncool" high school seniors who find a way to change their world, thanks to a homemade time machine. It stars Jason Dolley (from Disney Channel's Cory in the House) as Virgil Fox.

"My story begins in London, not so very long ago. And yet so much has happened since then, that it seems more like an eternity." -Pongo (101 Dalmatians)

"I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record." -Dean Jones (1995 Disney Legend)

1977:

The New Mickey Mouse Club airs episode seven. Mouseketeers Scott, Lisa and Allison find a lost bear cub aboard the Let's Go Day boat, and decide to take him to Yellowstone National Park so that he can meet some friendly bears. Scenes from Disney's Yellowstone Cubs are featured. Ol' Humphrey the Beezy Bear gets himself in to a sticky situation when he tries to steal honey from Donald Duck's beehives in today's all-color cartoon.

Selected Disney credits:

That Darn Cat!

The Ugly Dachshund

Monkeys, Go Home!

Blackbeard's Ghost

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

The Love Bug

The Million Dollar Duck

Snowball Express

The Shaggy D.A.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

1990:

Coca-Cola and Disney sign a 15-year marketing agreement in which Coca-Cola products will be used exclusively in all theme parks, and Coca-Cola will use certain Disney characters in its advertising. In 2002 Coca-Cola will expand its multi-year agreement with Disney to feature Dasani bottled water at Disney's U.S. parks, resorts and cruise line. (Although Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola were originally served at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, Coca-Cola's relationship with Disney goes back to 1950 and the first Disney television show, One Hour in Wonderland, which Coke sponsored. In 1955, Coke became a participant with the Refreshment Corner on Disneyland's Main Street, USA.)

2011:

Nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards are announced at the Samuel

Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, with Disney racking up a total of 13.

"For Toy Story 3 to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of

the ten best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming. I'm speechless; I feel like I've been blasted to infinity and

This makes Toy Story 3 the third animated film in history to be nominated for the top Oscar prize, following Beauty and the Beast in 1991 and Up in 2010. It is also the eighth Pixar film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature since the award was first created in 2001.

"World of Color" celebrates a big milestone at Disney California

Adventure park ... it's 500th performance! More than two million guests have

seen this spectacular display of water and special effects since it opened on June 11, 2010.

Mickey's Soundsational Parade returns to Disneyland on this afternoon. The parade,

which debuted back in 2011, did not play in 2018, giving way to the Pixar Play Parade for the Disneyland Resort's

Pixar Fest last year.

Sydney to the Max, a comedy television series created by Mark Reisman, premieres

on Disney Channel with the episode "Can't Dye This." Ruth Righi plays 12-year-old Sydney who lives with her single father Max and her paternal grandmother Judy as she navigates life in middle school with her friend Olive. The cast includes Ava Kolker, Jackson Dollinger, Christian J. Simon, Ian Reed Kesler, and Caroline Rhea.